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Consider first the debt.
That whirring sound you hear is probably the late Sen. Harry F. Byrd Sr. rotating in his grave. In 1966, the year he passed away, the entire federal indebtedness from the beginning of the Republic came to just under $314 billion, or only 60 percent more than the amount of last year’s increase alone. Indeed, when Mr. Reagan took office 14 years later in
88.8%